page_title: Porters' lodge
hierarchical_section_title: Porters' lodge
caption_attribution_description: from en.wikipedia
context_page_description: A porters' lodge or porter's lodge is a place near the entrance of a building where one or more porters can be found to respond to enquiries from the public and direct them around the building. It is particularly associated with university accommodation in the United Kingdom and Canada.
  Oxbridge porters' lodges typically also house the pigeon-holes for students' and Fellows' mail.
context_section_description: A porters' lodge or porter's lodge (colloquially, plodge) is a place near the entrance of a building where one or more porters can be found to respond to enquiries from the public and direct them around the building. It is particularly associated with university accommodation in the United Kingdom and Canada (such as the majority of colleges of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, York and Toronto). 
  Oxbridge porters' lodges typically also house the pigeon-holes for students' and Fellows' mail.
caption: The Gatehouse containing the porters' lodge at King's College, Cambridge.
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